Motivational Quotes

Evil

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

2.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

3.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

4.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

5.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

Evil spelled backward is live.

7.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

8.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

9.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

10.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

12.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

13.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

15.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

16.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

17.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

18.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

20.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

21.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

24.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

25.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

27.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

28.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

30.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

31.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

34.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

35.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

36.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

37.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

38.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

39.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

40.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

41.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

43.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

44.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.